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Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy

6 reviews
Darryl Millis, David Levine, ...

Saunders, 2004

great book
This book was a recommended resource when I was taking the Canine rehab practitioner course. I used it quite often as a reference and still do in practice. It is great for the veterinary practitioner, physical therapist or the vet tech that would like to know more about how,when and why to perform physiotherapy for animals. It is quite a technical book so some knowledge of animals and anatomy ...

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect

2 reviews
Kynaston McShine, Christopher Williams, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

An Overview of The Show
I attended this exhibit at the MoMA and was thrilled to see so many great artists interpreting what museums and "the institution" means. For some artists, the act of collecting is very private...like Joseph Cornell and his many obsessive boxes, or Christian Boltanski and his melancholy installation of forgotten photographs. In another personal piece, Sophie Calle interviewed various staff ...

Vocabulary for the College Bound Student

6 reviews
Harold Levine, Norman Levine, ...

Amsco School Pubns Inc, 1992

Best resource for improving SAT scores!
I remembered having this book in High School. Even then I recognized it's value in helping to build a large vocabulary. None of the other vocbulary books even come close. Words are grouped by type, such as words related to "sobriety". Words are also split into groups with either Latin or Greek roots. No other book does this. I have searched in vain for a resource to buy this book for my own ...

The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942

3 reviews
Robert Levine, Miles Barth, ...

Duke University Press, 1998

Haunting photos of Brazililans during early 1940s
The photographer, Genevieve Naylor, went to Brazil after working for the Associated Press and the Roosevelt administration's photographic corps. She brought to her assignment a wonderful eye for composition and an affection for the simple aspects of Brazilian life. This is a compelling book that is beautifully printed and handsomely presented. The author does an excellent job of setting the ...

The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers Series)

8 reviews

Duke University Press, 1999

I wish this book was in Portuguese
I brought this book in Los Angeles on the way back from a trip to Disney with my children. I finished it almost when I arrived home. The book has great insight and should be read by Brazilians, because it presents things as they are, not as they are supposed to be. Maybe the book will be públished in Brazil some day. I hope so.

Cuban Miami

4 reviews

Rutgers University Press, 2000

Excellent! A great analysis of Cuban-Americans in Miami.
Excellent! This book manages to provide a comprehensive textual documentary of the Cuban exile experience in Miami in an easy-to-read manner. It accomplishes this with its great visual exposition of photographs ranging from the early 1900's to the present time, as well as a thorough analysis of this group's migration to this country. For those interested in understanding the Cuban-American ...

Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897

3 reviews
Robert M. Levine

University of California Press, 1995

A superior combination of drama, insight & scholarship.
Northeast Brazil has arguably inspired more fine writing than any other region in Latin America, & Levine's book continues this tradition. The Canudos episode has had two major previous chroniclers, first Da Cunha's classic eyewitness account "Rebellion in the Backlands," & Vargas Llosa's "War of the End of the World," familiar to US readers. Levine's scholarly history does not have the ...

Prisoners of Age: The Alcatraz Exhibition

13 reviews
Ron Levine

Ron Levine Photography, 2000

Prisoners of age
This was without doubt the most thought provoking body of work I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The pictures are haunting in their eloquence. There images leave you with a sense of despair that at first overwhelms, but then touches you in pity for those poor wretches staring back from their miserable confines.

Avant-Guide Paris: Insiders' Guide to Progressive Culture

5 reviews
Rik Thomason

Empire Press Media, 2003

THE Guide to Have With You in Paris - Tourist or Local!
I just got back from my first trip ever to Paris and sadly, had to leave my copy with a friend who lives there. In short, this guide was so good, so comprehensive, honest, easy to read and understand that she wanted it for herself. (And my copy wasn't even the current one!) I bought four other guide books "just in case" and found them useless compared to this one. I can't wait to buy other ...

Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote ...

19 reviews
Robert T. Levine

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2000

Highly Entertaining and Educational
I was looking for resources to help make teaching about classical music and composers to primary grade children more entertaining and I found what I needed all wrapped up in this book and CD combination. Part I of the book concerns composers and is separated into the periods in which they composed, ie., Baroque, etc., with a brief description of art, architecture and feeling of the period. ...

Drug Therapy Decision Making Guide

1 review

W.B. Saunders Company, 1996

A medical educator and physician reviews this book
There are many books on the market that try to give both the starting physician and the experienced physician guidance on "current therapy", but most of them, I think, spend way too much time on diagnosis and not nearly enough time on the details of treatment - which drugs to use first, second, third, and in what dosages, and the rationale for choosing certain drugs. This book, Drug Therapy: ...

When You Are the Partner of a Rape or Incest Survivor: A Workbook for You

1 review
Robert Barry Levine

Resource Publications (CA), 1996

A Superb Resource for Partners of Survivors
Levine has managed to write a book that is enlightening and helpful for the partner of a rape or incest survivor. Most literature on this subject is authored by survivors, and offers insight into the healing process of the victim, and how as a partner we can support them through it. While an understanding of the survivor's feelings and difficulties is invaluable, I don't want to feel like I'm ...

Brazilian Legacies (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean)

1 review
Robert M. Levine

M.E. Sharpe, 1997

Provocative Analysis of Brazil Today
One of the best books on this topic because it not only examines Brazil's social and political problems but sees them as the legacy of past historical events and actions. The author knows Brazil intimately and conveys a sense of compassion for its people.

The House of the Seven Gables (Norton Critical Edition)

6 reviews
Nathaniel Hawthorne

W. W. Norton, 2005

Nathaniel Hawthorne Meets Charles Dickens.
If you are not familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne, it may help you to read chapter 13 first. The events in chapter 13 take place before anything else in the story. That said, this book is phenomenal. It would almost appear that Nathaniel Hawthorne was taking lessons from Charles Dickens at this time. Amongst other things, Hawthorne explores the theme that greed leads to one's downfall. (One of ...

The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Dialogos (Albuquerque, New Mexico).)

1 review
Robert M. Levine, José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy

University of New Mexico Press, 1995

Fascinating portrait of an African-Brazilian woman writer
This is a marvelous study not only of a poignant African-Brazilian woman persecuted for daring to state her beliefs, but one that reveals the different ways that American (Levine) and Brazilian (Meihy) scholars perceive the problems of race in society. A must read for anyone interested in Latin American society or the history of women or of blacks in the hemisphere.

The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold

9 reviews
Robert V. Levine

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Great book
Easy to read. Lots of new material. Doesn't have a sales focus but is still a must for every salesperson. An academic who doesn't try and impress you with who he is. This is a fine book. Along with Hogan's The Psychology of Persuasion, this is one of the best. DT

Maria Callas: A Musical Biography

7 reviews
Robert Levine

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2003

Getting to know the diva intimately
If you are pretty much unacquainted with the art and life of Maria Callas, I highly recommend this book by Robert Levine, an widely-known music writer and Senior Editor of ClassicsToday.com. I knew Maria Callas only by reputation and publicity and by my old LP of Norma, recorded in 1960, a riveting dramatic portrait, although the vocal problems that shortened her career were then very much ...

Images of History: 19th and Early 20th Century Latin American Photographs as Documents

1 review
Robert M. Levine

Duke University Press, 1990

Comprehensive history of photography in Latin America
In addition to a crisp survey of photography in Latin America from the earliest days in the 1840s to the 20th century, the author shows how the photographic images may be used as social documents for historical research. This path-breaking approach values the visual images for what they reveal about society and people's lives. Of great value to researchers and readers who wish to know about ...

Secret Missions to Cuba: Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami

8 reviews
Robert M. Levine

Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Excellent, probing, fascinating book
This book masterfully exposes the venality of the right-wing Cuban exile power brokers, especially the suffocating voices of Spanish-language radio in Miami. I can attest to the fact that the book is wholly on the mark. It reveals details about the exile experience that are astonishing, and also very sad. This is the best book I have ever read on the subject, and also on the precarious, often ...

Journeys in Social Psychology

1 review

Psychology Press, 2008

The people behind the science
As a student and teacher of Experimental Social Psychology for more than four decades, I believe that the appreciation and understanding of science is aided immeasurably by knowing more about the interesting human beings involved. This important book allows more than a dozen very influential psychologists to expand on the personal influences and choices they made which led to their important ...

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